R. Stevie Moore
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Biography
[Edit]One of the most difficult to categorize musicians in rock, R. Stevie Moore is a true original. Bypassing the traditional recording industry more thoroughly than just about any internationally known singer/songwriter ever has, Moore has self-released literally thousands of songs through the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club (online at www.rsteviemoore.com), an ongoing mail-order operation that has hundreds of individually dubbed cassettes and CD-Rs in its catalog. The handful of traditional LPs and CDs Moore has released since 1975 are primarily collections of some of the best songs from those cassettes. Moore's music, a blend of classic pop influences, arty experimentalism, idiosyncratic lyrics, wild stylistic left turns, and homemade rough edges, is one of a kind, but entire generations of lo-fi enthusiasts and indie trailblazers, from Guided by Voices to the Apples in Stereo, owe much to Moore's pioneering in the field.
The son of legendary Music City session musician Bob Moore (not Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, as many articles mistakenly claim) and the older brother of Linda Moore, singer/bassist for '80s country-pop band Calamity Jane, Robert Steven Moore was born January 18, 1952, in Nashville, Tennessee. Growing up in a musical environment, Moore mastered several instruments as a child, including guitar, piano, bass, and drums. He formed his first band, the Marlborough, at the age of 15; armed with inspiration from the first two Mothers of Invention albums and an inexpensive four-track recorder he received for his 16th birthday, Moore began recording Marlborough performances, bizarre spoken word pieces, comedic skits, and one-man band songs. This all-over-the-map D.I.Y. aesthetic would remain Moore's calling card throughout his career.
After graduating from high school and dropping out of Vanderbilt University, Moore became a session musician and the president of his father's music publishing company, but did not excel at either. Moore's eccentric personal style and non-country musical influences, including Zappa, the Beatles, Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, and the Move, were determinedly out of step with Nashville's prevailing musical culture during the early '70s. Although Moore and his high-school friends gigged around town under a variety of band names, most of his time was spent writing and recording by himself, slowly developing an idiosyncratic but increasingly poppy personal style. Encouraged by his uncle Harry Palmer, who at the time was president of Atco Records, Moore pieced together his 1975 debut album, Phonography, from two years' worth of home recording sessions. Palmer issued Phonography and its two follow-ups, Stance and Delicate Tension, on his own HP Music label. Encouraged by the response his records were receiving in the nascent New York punk and new wave scene — Ira Robbins' Trouser Press magazine was particularly complimentary in its praise — Moore moved to northern New Jersey in early 1978.
Aside from periodic bouts of gigging around New York, often backed by friends like Chris Butler and the Smithereens' Dennis Diken, Moore has remained a home-recording loner, creating new songs on an almost weekly basis in styles ranging all the way from hip-hop to Windham Hill-style piano instrumentals. A mid-'80s association with the French New Rose label resulted in his best-known albums, the two-disc retrospective Everything You Always Wanted to Know About R. Stevie Moore But Were Afraid to Ask and the fruit of a rare session in a real recording studio, Teenage Spectacular. Other albums and CDs, including an expanded digital reissue of Phonography and a well-chosen but unfortunately named career overview called Greatesttits, have come out on a variety of tiny American and European indies.
Moore continued to record throughout the '90s and 2000s, seeing a spike in recognition by the late 2000s when emerging lo-fi artists such as Ariel Pink and John Maus cited Moore as a primary influence. This led to more exposure for his always prolific recordings, as well as European touring and a cover story in the end name for all experimental music mags, The Wire. Amid a constant stream of new songs and releases, 2012 saw the release of yet another collection of his stronger work, Lo-Fi Hi-Fives... A Kind of Best Of, followed the next year by another, Personal Appeal. Probably too quirky and challenging to ever break through beyond his devoted and slowly growing cult following, R. Stevie Moore has remained true to his fiercely independent vision.
Title: What's the Point?!!
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Loud Love Live (Live On WRVU, Jan. 31, 2011)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Teenage Spectacular
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Delicate Tension (Bonus Tracks)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Delicate Tension
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Lids & Blankets: A Covers Collection (Vol. 3)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative
Title: Meet the R. Stevie Moore! (Digital Only,Collection)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: R. Stevie Moore and Those Who Followed, Vol. 3 - Single
Artist: R. Stevie Moore, Sean Moore
Genre: Alternative
Title: Glad Music
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Personal Appeal
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Thoroughly Years: Phonography, Vol. 2
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Sheetrock
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: R. Stevie Moore (1952-19??) [2014 Remaster]
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: I've Begun to Fall in Love
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, New Wave, Post Punk, Indie
Title: Lids & Blankets: A Covers Collection (Vol. 2)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative
Title: Contact Risk (A Selection of Home and Studio Recordings 1968-1990)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Great Test Hits (Home and Studio Recordings 1968-1986)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Swing and a Miss/R. Stevie Moore '77
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: R. Stevie Moore Sings Ford Theatre
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: R. Stevie Moore and Those Who Followed, Vol. 2 - Single
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Alternative
Title: Phonography (Home Recordings 1970-1975)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Games & Groceries
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Lo Fi High Fives... A Kind of Best Of
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: Yung & Moore Versus the Whole Goddam Stinkin' World
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Lids & Blankets: A Covers Collection (Vol. 1)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative
Title: Afterlife
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Indie
Title: R. Stevie Moore Plays Songs By the Beatles
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: CLACK! (The 1979-1980 New York Studio Recordings)
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, New Wave, Pop, Alternative
Title: The Great American Songbook Vol. 1
Artist: Jad Fair, R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Title: Hundreds of Hiding Places
Artist: R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Collections
Title: Worried Noodles
Genre: Electronica, Alternative
Title: Sewer Greats, Vol. 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Lemme Take You to the Beach
Genre: Rock
Title: The Tarquin Records All Star Holiday Extravaganza
Genre: Rock
Title: I Killed the Monster
Genre: Rock
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Genre: Electronica, Electro, Punk, Dub, Experimental
Title: New Rose Story Vol. 1
Genre: Blues Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk, Punk Rock, Rockabilly
Title: Home Sweet Rock 2020 (CD2)
Featuring albums
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Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Indie Rock, Reggae, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Late Night Tales
Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Indie Rock, Reggae, Pop, Alternative, Psychedelic
Title: Late Night Tales: Franz Ferdinand
Artist: Franz Ferdinand
Genre: Electronica, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative